It's Monday, March 2, 2006. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing. A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. History can change in just a matter of minutes, maybe even less. Americans woke up on Saturday morning to discover that we are at war with Iran.

Military efforts began early morning in Iran Saturday morning and involved the armed forces of both

the United States and Israel. And the scale, frankly, it's still pretty staggering. We knew of the

massive American buildup of military power there in the area pretty staggering. We knew of the massive American buildup of military power

there in the area surrounding Iran. We knew that the president had been very frustrated with

lack of progress in peace talks with Iran. We knew that Iran was balking at backing down from

the enrichment of their uranium and other materials, and basically they were unwilling to back off from at least the capacity of building a nuclear weapon.

And by the way, events of the last couple of days have demonstrated why Iran drew that line and why Israel and the United States had to go over it.

Well, you look at this and you recognize that history does change, life can change,

the trajectory can change.

And indeed, by the time the end of the day came on Saturday, it was well attested and even

confirmed by the Iranian regime that Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Hamini was dead.

Not only that, but members of his family.

And we then came to understand why the events unfolded as they did. The timing is very important.

But before we get to the timing of the military effort itself, we need to talk about two things,

the history behind it and the big worldview issues behind it. And then let's go ahead and say we need to talk about two things, the history behind it and the big worldview issues behind it.

And then let's go ahead and say we need to talk about the politics of the contemporary situation as well.

All of this is playing into the big picture.

All of it needs to be considered in worldview analysis.

First of all, why in the world are we talking about this at all?

If you talk to most Americans over the course of American history and mentioned Iran, they would have some distant knowledge

that Iran was a nation. But they might actually refer to it as something like Persia,

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